Game apparatus.



Patented Aug. l4, I900. V W. H. EYNON &. D. DUCKETT.

GAME APPARATUS.

(Apphcation filed Apr. 26, 1899.)

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ilwrrnn STATES PATENT rare;

WILLIAM H. EYNON AND DAVID DUOKETT, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

GAM E APPARATUS.

fiPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,768, dated August14, 1900.

Application fil dApril 25, 1899. Serial Ila-714,406. (Nomodeld To allwhom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, VVILLIAM H. EYNON and DAVID DUCKETT, residing atCleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented anew and useful Game Apparatus,.of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention is in the nature of an apparatus with which to play a gamewhich we designate the game of time, the object of the invention beingto provide an interesting, amusing, and instructive parlor-game forchildren.

With this object in View our invention con sists in the improvedconstruction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter fullydescribed, and afterward specificall y pointed out in the appendedclaim.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our invention mostnearly appertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed todescribe its construction and operation, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a topplan view of a game apparatus constructed in accordance with ourinvention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the same.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts in both figures of thedrawings.

Referring to the drawings by letters, A indicates an oblong rectangularboard or card in the center of which is erected an arbor or shaft B,upon which are journaled four sets of hands, being four minute-h andsO,D,'E,and F,.and four hour-hands O, D, E, andF, the portion of theboard over which the hands may be rotated being painted to represent aclock-face. Near the four corners of the board are four dials C, D, E,and F, each being provided with a pintle or arbor at its center,uponwhich is swiveled loosely an arrow-hand, as at c, d, e, and f, The foursets of hands at the clock-face are of different colors, and the fourhands of the cornerdials are correspondingly colored. In practice thehands are intended to be colored red, green, yellow, and white and aremarked R, G, Y, and WV to indicate these diiferent colors.

The four corner dials are divided into twenty spaces each and numberedfrom 1 to 10, with blank spaces or spaces marked O intervening.

The game as illustrated is played by four persons, each of which has acorner-dial and the correspondingly colored set of clockhands as hisown. spin or twirl the arrow-hands on the cornerdials, and when the handhas stopped the numberindicated shows the number of spaces the player isentitled to move the minutehand of corresponding color on the clockdia].When a minute-hand has been moved sixty spaces, the hour-hand ofcorresponding color is moved from XII to I on the clockdial and the gamecontinued until one player has moved his set of clock-hands the numberof hours and minutes previously agreed upon as the limit of the game,when he is declared the winner. The game may be continued, if desired,until all but one player is out.

The game will prove very interesting and amusing to children and willinstruct them in the movement of the hands of a clock, whereby they maybe taught to tell the time.

As many players may be provided for as is desired byincreasing ordiminishing the number of sets of hands on the clock-dial, and for thisreason the spindle or arbor B is made removable, being secured by a nut13, sunk flush with the under surface of the board.

Then a hand on any of the corner-dials stops over a blank or zero space,the player is not entitled to move his minute-hand.

It will be readily understood that the arrangement of the dials may bechanged such, for instance, as by placing the clockface and its hands ina different part of the board-and the shape of the hands or theornamentation of the dials varied without departing from the spirit andscope of ourinvention.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The players in succession- A game apparatus comprising a boardprorespond with the sets of hands, substantially vided with aclock-dial, a shaft or arbor reas described.

inovabl fixed in the center thereof and a 111- 1 r T ralityodiiferently-co1ored sets of hourand minute hands loosely mounted on theshaft, and a series of graduated dials correspond- Witnesses:

ing in number with the sets of hands and EDWIN FOWLER,

having swiveled arrow-hands colored to cor- I G. F. STAHL.

